Rational pharmacological approach to clinical studies for the treatment of SARS-COV-2 infection
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https://doi.org/10.33233/eb.v19i4.4349Abstract
Abstract
The global emergency generated by the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-COV-2 virus has created serious impacts on the different populations of the planet and has triggered the generation of scientific information on an unprecedented scale until then for a single topic. One of the consequences of the global scientific effort lies in the large number of substances already tested, by different methods, the search for an effective treatment for the infection and the consequent disease, remaining without absolute success so far. Assimilating the lessons, learned from the successful adoption of therapies combining multiple drugs used in HIV infection, the evidence obtained from the large amount of published information regarding the action of many substances with different mechanisms, now allows the proposition, in this work, of tests clinical trials for the evaluation of regimens composed of at least three drugs in combination. Rational combination schemes can target different molecular components of the virus affecting different points in the SARS-COV-2 replication cycle, such as virus fusion to the host cell, replication and viral particle assembly generating a potentially more effective synergistic effect than attempts using a single substance.
Keywords: antiviral, pandemic, combination therapy.
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